The CIA Plenary meeting decisions:
18th FAI European Hot Air Balloon Championship 2013
Poland – 21 votes
Hungary – 16 votes
21th FAI World Hot Air Balloon Championship 2014
Brazil – 22 votes
Lithuania – 15 votes
I directed 20 National championship in 8 different country and two cat 1 Event and one cat 2 Event and the first Junior Pre-Worlds. I was deputy director on the last Europeans and four other cat 1 Events.
I was Jury on Worlds, Europeans and Gordon Bennett. Some more Events are here.
Today we send you a link to ZIPed electronic map calibrated for OziExplorer and a link to map image if you use other mapping software. Each file is approx. 20 MB large.
Competition rules version 2012 will be approved by CIA Plenary Meeting this week. Thereafter all updated sections of the rules will be published at the event website.
Inspired by the bad news from New Zealand I’m sharing Risto Jalava’s 2002 memo about power line contacts. It MUST to read it for ALL balloonist what happens when a balloon hits a powerline!
Hopefully nobody again!
Link to Risto Jalava’s 2002 memo.
Under the Sanction granted by the Commission Internationale d‘Aerostation (CIA) of the FAI, the Aero Club of Lithuania has the great pleasure to invite 2 competitors from your country to take part in 1st FAI Junior World Hot Air Balloon Championship.
We are kindly asking you to nominate top 2 junior pilots (must be aged less than 27 years the year of the event ) for the World Championship and send the list of junior pilots of your country according to their ranking for the second invitation round with all information as soon as possible.
The entry closing date of the first invitation round is 1st February 2012.
Location: Marijampolé, Lithuania.
Second round will start if quota of 30 pilots will be not reached. In that case each country,
which have registered 2 competitors, will get an equal number of extra places. The umber of extra places will be a subject of deficit in the first invitation round places.
The official invition to national aero club available from here.
The latest version of rules CIA-AX-MER-2012 will be published here for download as soon as possible prior the championship. Section III should be confirmed by CIA Plenary meeting in March 2012.
Section I and two available from here.
The brothers, Joseph Michel and Jacques Etienne Montgolfier, were inventors of the first hot air balloon. They used the smoke from a fire to blow hot air into a silk bag. The silk bag was attached to a basket. The hot air then rose and allowed the balloon to be lighter-than-air.
In 1783, the first passengers in the colorful balloon were a sheep, rooster and duck. It climbed to a height of about 6,000 feet and traveled more than 1 mile.
After this first success, the brothers began to send men up in balloons. The first manned flight was on November 21, 1783, the passengers were Jean-Francois Pilatre de Rozier and François Laurent d’Arlandes.
Today 228 years ago the first manned balloonflight
The final results of the 17th Europeans Hot Air Balloon Championship 2011.
The new generation arrived!
